The AI revolution in the workplace has only just begun, and people are already realizing who is supervising whom. wsj.com/articles/ai-ch… #xp 
I had a conversation with an economist friend the other day, who argued that in the long run, automation creates more jobs than it displaces. Yes, historically this has been true, even if the N is small wrt macrocycles of automation. #xp
But job disruption tends to happen much faster than the creation of new jobs, which is, in part, what led to the textile mill riots and Ludditism in the 19th century. Job displacement on a much larger scale today in a more fragile society will be profoundly destabilizing. #xp
People mostly throw up their hands at this, as if pointing out such things is like complaining about gravity. The implication is that technological change is exogenous and inexorable, not a choice within the system. Learned helplessness is a hell of a drug. #xp
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